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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Mike Farren Tutorial.
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 16:48:11 GMT

In article <21510@shlump.nac.dec.com> plouff@kali.enet.dec.com (Wes Plouff) writes:
>
>Boyohboy!  Mike Farren makes some carefully reasoned conjectures and the
>flamefest begins!  He spins out a WHAT IF scenario... what if Lemmings
>were designed to use Amiga standards?  What compromises would be
>necessary?  Nobody so far has refuted his arguments that the only
>compromises needed _might_ be a) less complicated intro animation and 
>b) remove two visual puns on other Psygnosis games.  Is this a big lose
>for Lemmings?  IMO, no.
>
	It seems the problem here is that everyone is screaming
that the others are wrong and then proceed to argue on a totally
different subject.
	My question is: What about Shadow of the Beast type
programs? How far should/could Psygnosis have gone with SOTB to
make it Amiga-friendly? It doesn't seem to be the most amenable
of games to the OS. It must play some NASTY copper-list tricks,
and probably does need every ounce of memory on a 512K system.

	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.